Some newer RfCs that you ought to know about, mostly draft-ish and in progress. Please comment on their talkpages.

* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/SOA_Authentication "With many more entry points and the need for inter-service authentication, a service-oriented architecture requires a stronger authentication system." * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Debugging_at_production_... "Sometimes we have to debug on production wiki, but don't want to show internal information to normal users..." * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Unfragmented_ZERO_design "In order to significantly reduce varnish fragmentation and reduce the complexity, Zero team would like to unify HTML served to all Zero partners's users...."

Also: I've heard feedback that the RfC process ought to move faster, and that we ought to have more people from more disciplines take a look at changes that users will visually notice. Sounds good to me. So:

* I'm going to add more IRC discussion hours that will be more for *discussing* specific RfCs and getting general community feedback, rather than asking for go/no-go decisions. These will be in addition to the weekly decision-oriented meetings. It seems like people get a lot out of having these real-time conversations in addition to the option to comment onwiki and onlist, so this is a way to push the most complex topics forward. This will also allow us to have more chats that suit different timezones. We will also sometimes piggyback them onto the videostreamed Tech Talks, with simultaneous Etherpad notes + IRC.

* I'm going to make more of an effort to invite specific people from diverse disciplines to RfC discussions, e.g., QA people for debugging stuff, design/product people for user-visible changes, etc. I've been doing this but I'll be more systematic. Please help me out by spreading the word to people whom you think will be interested.